Mr. Erik Wemple, media writer for the Washington Post, contacted me with a few questions about the David Gregory Magazinegate story.

1) It appears that you are the one who first raised the question of the legality of the magazine that David Gregory brandished on Sunday. Is that your understanding as well?

The Patriot Perspective was the first blog to report it that I know of, yes.

The first place I remember seeing the question raised was on the AR15.com website here, by at first one, then by numerous forum members. It’s a very large community, with many folks who live throughout the country, dealing with the patchwork of gun laws that alternatingly work and fail across the country. David Gregory waving around the magazine was brought up slightly earlier in a thread about the David Gregory/Wayne LaPierre interview by other forum members, and there may have been other…